Ice

I have been photographing the ice structures that form on Morgan Run Creek, near my home in Westminster, Maryland, for more than five years. It can be a frustrating, but ultimately rewarding undertaking. There are usually only a few days each year when the temperature stays low enough, for long enough, to produce interesting patterns, and for the ice to be thick enough to pick up small sections in order to fully reveal its intricate structures.

Most of these images were presented in my first solo exhibition, "Order From Chaos", at the Delaplaine Arts Center in Frederick, MD.

Window Series

Looking through the frame of our own making, what can we see when we look deep enough and long enough?

This ongoing series reflects my interest in our planet and near-earth space.  "What if we had a window to the layers; the millennial accretion of sediment and time?"  What would it reveal about ourselves?

Two distinct works are shown here, the Window view and the Rift view.  Both examine layering in two and three dimensions.


Common Threads

We often find ourselves faced with addressing the differences between people, via identity, politics, economic stature, family origin, and more. Considering these topics, real entwined thread, or pulled lengths of wool, in the Common Threads paintings are a metaphor for commonly shared experiences bridging these different identity issues. Shared experiences bind people and their histories together in intimately interesting ways. I am working to use these links and metaphoric threads as a means to find common ground and harmony. 

Couples

The diptych format intrigues me, both as a way to acknowledge and explore the two sides of my own ethnicity, and evolving to think about dualities within ourselves and bridges of connection between two people. I am also exploring the use of my medium by painting gestures that look immediate, yet are made of layered isolated pools of color with each mark carefully considered. In my diptych paintings I approach the idea of human connection and the intimacy between the movement of forms. 

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